... by the I b5ketobes ot thi ITish Bar. in which series he was joined by Sbeil. lr. W. H. Ctrran'sepooiality was s a literary whig. Hewas a memberof theewsigpolitiscalparty for many yeare,-sand he watchbed the game of politics with keen interest. His early ...

... Glasgow Argas, a journal set up by the whig party with a view of conciliating the support of the liberals in general. Mr. Weir succeeded admirably in that object, but at the expense of going further than the whigs; and in 1839, in the thirty-seventh year ...

... in what was termed half a century since the school of Adam Smitib. His hereditary political creed was that of a Liberal, a Whig and something more; but till middle life he tooni no part in politics. Of retiring habits, and with a certain physical timidity ...